Hi,
In message "Re: File.link() error message"
on Sun, 12 Jun 2005 12:25:30 +0900, lorisx / gmail.com (a slow loris) (with) (poison)
(elbows) writes:
|Why does File.link() report that the source file exists? It really
|ought to only report that the destination file exists. It isn't an
|error for the source to exist. If it didn't, we'd get ENOENT, not
|EEXIST.
I guess it's a matter of description.
"Errno::EEXIST: File exists - foop or barp" means that an EEXIST error
happened either for foop or barp. But I don't want to treat every
kind of system call errors individually.
If you (or anyone else) have any suggestion for better description, we
are always open.
matz.